Entering Black Cat Books on Shelter Island for the first time is a thrill for a book lover. Housed in a cedar-shingled, turn-of-the-last-century home, wife-and-husband owners Dawn Heberg and Michael Kinsey make the most of every shelf, bookcase and corner of the expansive building, filling it to the brim with used books of all kinds — fiction, memoir, cooking, science fiction, romance, you name it. It’s the kind of store you see (or read about) in an old-fashioned mystery, where the main character stumbles upon some rare, tucked away, one-of-a-kind tome and embarks upon a grand adventure to collect a mystical artifact.
Listen to “Bound for Glory: Starting a collection at your local bookstore” by Lee Meyer on the latest episode of the Northforker Stories podcast.
